mtekman

Reminds me of smithers.el

https://gitlab.com/mtekman/smithers.el/

    Name: Mehmet
    Location: UK or Germany
    Work Preferences: Remote/Hybrid/Office
    Technologies: R, Python, Javascript, C++, Common Lisp
    Resume, CV, Contact: (see my bio)

Several postdocs in bioinformatics, familiar with many different bioinformatic pipelines, tons of teaching and workshop hosting experience, work well as liaison between informaticians and biologists/medics, full stack dev who has empowered many research groups with their own in-house analytical platforms and trained them in its use.

Too long? GNU-obsessed Data Analyst with matrix management skills and a strong focus on reproducible environments and teaching what he knows to others.

I got to meet David Potter and his journalist wife when I was working at the Royal Free Hospital. He funded the Potter Chair position which my prof Dr Kleta filled as a nephrologist for many years. I have a picture of myself holding a Nokia N900 and shaking his hand.

At the time I thought he was the reason that the phone existed at all, not quite knowing the delicate politics between Symbian and Maemo at the time.

Still he smiled amicably enough and it's a treasured photo of mine.

A lifetime ago I wrote an OpenCV blob detection auto-mining tool for it:

https://gitlab.com/mtekman/runescape-motiondetector

It worked for about an hour before having the nasty habit of attacking monsters, chasing them out into the wilderness where you'd check in on your character and find him dead, barren, and lost.

Fun though.

I used to run fail2ban, but I found it (or at least its defaults) ineffective against discouraging further requests. With iptables, you can specify the connection to hang for a period and then drop

I have a utility that parses ssh failed attempts and creates iptables blocklists:

https://gitlab.com/mtekman/iptables-autobanner

For those just wanting the blocklist, here is a table of malicious IP addresses, with columns of: address, number of ports tried, number of usernames tried.

https://upaste.de/bgC

    Name: Mehmet
    Location: UK or Germany
    Work Preferences: Remote/Hybrid/Office
    Technologies: R, Python, Javascript, C++, Common Lisp
    Resume, CV, Contact: (see my bio)

Several postdocs in bioinformatics, familiar with many different bioinformatic pipelines, tons of teaching and workshop hosting experience, work well as liaison between informaticians and biologists/medics, full stack dev who has empowered many research groups with their own in-house analytical platforms and trained them in its use.

Too long? GNU-obsessed Data Analyst with matrix management skills and a strong focus on reproducible environments and teaching what he knows to others.

probably because the visual differences are so slight that there is no benefit in showing them to someone who isn't deeply entrenched in the topic

    Name: Mehmet
    Location: UK or Germany
    Work Preferences: Remote/Hybrid/Office
    Technologies: R, Python, Javascript, C++, Common Lisp
    Resume, CV, Contact: (see my bio)
     

Several postdocs in bioinformatics, familiar with many different bioinformatic pipelines, tons of teaching and workshop hosting experience, work well as liaison between informaticians and biologists/medics, full stack dev who has empowered many research groups with their own in-house analytical platforms and trained them in its use.

Too long? GNU-obsessed Data Analyst with matrix management skills and a strong focus on reproducible environments and teaching what he knows to others.

I use the same pattern for my iptables banner.

It's essentially a manual firewall for when I disable ufw if it's being too aggressive:

https://gitlab.com/mtekman/iptables-autobanner

Same for these "lightning fast" bashrc frameworks. I boiled down my main cases into 15 lines in my rc:

https://mstdn.science/@mtekman/111861830339082890

Hah, no worries - if ever you start anything in the UK/EU space, feel free to ping me!

Ah. This would be perfect for me (see my bio), but I'm only UK and EU based. I'd do remote if I could.

because the vector contains characters, so clearly it encodes categorical data and not numeric

There's also this new Gem:

https://mstdn.science/@mtekman/111964030735312859

    Name: Mehmet
    Location: UK or Germany
    Work Preferences: Remote/Hybrid/Office
    Technologies: R, Python, Javascript, C++, Common Lisp
    Resume, CV, Contact: (see my bio)
     

Several postdocs in bioinformatics, familiar with many different bioinformatic pipelines, tons of teaching and workshop hosting experience, work well as liaison between informaticians and biologists/medics, full stack dev who has empowered many research groups with their own in-house analytical platforms and trained them in its use.

Too long? GNU-obsessed Data Analyst with a strong focus on reproducible environments and teaching what he knows to others.

This is really amazing. I wonder if confounders such as transcriptional bursting[1] are modelled too? I did not check but I assume cell-cycle is readily modelled.

1: The tendency of a single cell to perform transcription in bursts of activity/inactivity, which averages in bulk tissue as a continuous variable.

Thanks for the insight!

> I started interviewing for positions in (tech) industry, got a monetary offer 5 times what I was making as a senior postdoc, started a new career, and never looked back.

Hello, I'm in a similar sort of transition position. May I ask where you applied (US/UK/EU-based?) and what your main experience was in adapting your academic CV to industry?

(Feel free to reach me by email or matrix too)

Cyclists are still given the stink eye in England if they even consider cycling on the pavement (I was once physically assaulted as a teen by a 'concerned citizen' for doing such a reckless thing), despite it being completely normal in other European cities.

Before the bike lanes were common, you had to cut your teeth zipping between the cars in the narrow roads, keeping up with traffic speeds, annoying every driver who gave you an inch, terrifying bewildered tourists, and watching your face get smashed by door after door after door.

When the cycle lanes were rolled out, things became much safer between bikes and cars, but now all bikes are herded together and you experience a bike lane traffic as Mr Expensive Latex seems to have no idea how to pull over to let others pass whilst he's busy clicking in his shoes.

It's very safe now. I kind of miss the mad chaos London used to be when cycling, when only the dumb and the brave dared to battle the busses. When you'd get to work pumped with the adrenaline and the knowledge that you survived the journey

For anyone wondering why they cant access their ipv6-addressed pi box from public WiFi networks: those public networks still use ipv4 and assign you only a lonk-local ipv6 address.

To go from 4 to 6, the public WiFi box will need to use a 4 to 6 "broker" and there are surprisingly few of these around and they're not usually free.

So basically, your home network and Pi is future-ready, but public infrastructure might need a moment...

Its a very opinionated OS, like iOS/Windows (but freer in every sense), where there is usually only one way to do something.

No choice of desktop managers or window managers, just very lean and streamlined software with little redundancy

I think people like it because its neat.

Emissions from aviation contributes 3% to greenhouse gasses.

In a similar manner for Emacs users: magit-toggle-refine-hunk is a lifesaver for word diffs

I can't help but imagine jettisoned rotors falling to the ground like spiraling beams and wedging themselves a good portion into the earth like throwing a knife into the ground

I'm actually working on a project to revive Amazon Kindles as personal productivity devices. I'm very close to release, and will open the source soon

One of the brothers is the main developer and ideas guy, the other is more the admin/idea control/art role